Head of Compliance

Gauntlet•New York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote, NY

1d•Remote

About The Position

Gauntlet is hiring its first dedicated Head of Compliance. This role brings together compliance responsibilities currently spread across Legal and the wider business, identifies gaps, and establishes a clear, practical program that scales with the company. Reporting to the General Counsel, the Head of Compliance will set the direction and own the execution, including writing policies, building processes, implementing tooling, and running monitoring. Gauntlet recently completed its Series C and is preparing for registrations in the capital markets space. The scope is broad, covering financial crime, securities regulation, privacy, marketing, employment, anti-corruption, regulatory registrations, and other emerging areas. This is a hands-on senior role with significant ownership, direct access to company leadership, and the opportunity to build a program specifically for an onchain financial business.

Requirements

Experience building a compliance program, standing up a major part of one, or materially improving how an existing program operates.
Broad compliance experience across several domains rather than a single specialism, with strong knowledge of how policies, controls, monitoring, testing, training, reporting, and governance work together.
Experience supporting regulatory registrations, examinations, audits, or similar engagements.
A willingness to work directly on the detail — you can both set the approach and execute it, without needing a mature compliance function around you to get started.
The ability to give clear, practical guidance without overcomplicating it: managing risk pragmatically rather than defaulting to the most conservative answer, while giving a clear "no" when the risk requires it.
Good judgement and the confidence to raise concerns directly when something does not look right.
Comfort working in a growing company where the priorities and regulatory questions will continue to evolve.

Nice To Haves

Experience in crypto, digital assets, or onchain financial products, and familiarity with the regulatory questions facing businesses operating across traditional and onchain finance.
A compliance designation such as CAMS, CRCM, or CCEP.
Existing experience working with relevant regulators.
Experience using AI, automation, or data tooling within a compliance program.

Responsibilities

Build and run Gauntlet's compliance program, including its priorities, governance, controls, and operating cadence.
Draft, update, and implement policies and procedures across the business, and establish a practical compliance testing and monitoring program.
Create reporting, escalation, and governance processes that give leadership a clear view of compliance risks and issues.
Support upcoming registrations, help prepare the business for the regulatory requirements that follow, and coordinate regulatory examinations, audits, and related information requests.
Partner with Legal, Product, Engineering, Finance, People, and commercial teams to incorporate compliance requirements into their day-to-day work, and review and improve company-wide compliance training.
Advise the business across financial crime, privacy, marketing, securities, anti-corruption, employment, and other relevant areas.
Use AI and automation to make monitoring, reporting, policy management, and other compliance workflows more efficient.
Keep the program current as Gauntlet's products, clients, and regulatory obligations evolve.